Screen-based textile printing

The technique is very versatile and adaptable. Plastisols may be applied overall or—by means of engraved screens—can be printed in selected areas, in weights that can be varied between 30 g m-2 and more than 500 g m-2. Suitable substrates include paper, other non-woven materials, glass-fibre webs, and textiles. Water-based inks can be employed as coatings or in printed designs. For relief effects, expandable aqueous polyacrylate dispersions offer an alternative to expandable plastisol inks. They are dried and then expanded at 120°C, a temperature much lower than is required for vinyls with a multi-station machine, a wide variety of products can be made. 

During the twentieth century, the majority of textiles came to be printed by screen-based processes. Silk-screen printing was patented in England in 1907 (Simon, 1907), although techniques such as katazome or resist printing through paper... 

Broadly speaking, it lends itself less to conversion for screen-based printing, along with the established industry practices for textile printing, such as multiple colorways. 

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